Meet Your Meat!
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Meet Your Meat!
In American farms there are sad animals that are living only for produce, like chicken live to lay eggs or cows live to produce milk or get sliced for steaks. Those animals are held in closed building with very tight cages without option to even swing a wing or make a leg move. They live in very large groups and they are treated as object not living animals. Animals dye every day from overweight or disease; they are fed to grow fast, so they will get killed for produce. Right now an average living age for a street is up to sixteen months, they are fed on 25 pounds of corn every day (Kirby, D.,2010, March 2, Animal Factory), including antibiotics, so they will grow fast and get killed fast, so people will have something to eat. No one has an idea why steer’s diet contains antibiotics. I first thought that antibiotics are given to animals for growing purposes, but they are to reduce the swelling in the liver and in the stomach. The corn diet makes such a bad effects on steer’s health, it makes them carry extra weight and makes them very ill, but no one cares about it, because the steer is just there to produce good looking steaks.
Problems
The biggest problem that occurs on those farms is that people are so cruel and without feelings, they don’t care how the animals suffer; all they care is the money for the produce. As better looking steer is raised than more good looking meat will be sold, and more money will be made. That is why we have to deal with factors of swine flu, bird flu, unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Also there are a lot of recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Farmers don’t realize that all those factors are bringing diseases on themselves and that they are the biggest earth pollutants when it comes to chemical
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Meet Your Meat!
In American farms there are sad animals that are living only for produce, like chicken live to lay eggs or cows live to produce milk or get sliced for steaks. Those animals are held in closed building with very tight cages without option to even swing a wing or make a leg move. They live in very large groups and they are treated as object not living animals. Animals dye every day from overweight or disease; they are fed to grow fast, so they will get killed for produce. Right now an average living age for a street is up to sixteen months, they are fed on 25 pounds of corn every day (Kirby, D.,2010, March 2, Animal Factory), including antibiotics, so they will grow fast and get killed fast, so people will have something to eat. No one has an idea why steer’s diet contains antibiotics. I first thought that antibiotics are given to animals for growing purposes, but they are to reduce the swelling in the liver and in the stomach. The corn diet makes such a bad effects on steer’s health, it makes them carry extra weight and makes them very ill, but no one cares about it, because the steer is just there to produce good looking steaks.
Problems
The biggest problem that occurs on those farms is that people are so cruel and without feelings, they don’t care how the animals suffer; all they care is the money for the produce. As better looking steer is raised than more good looking meat will be sold, and more money will be made. That is why we have to deal with factors of swine flu, bird flu, unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Also there are a lot of recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Farmers don’t realize that all those factors are bringing diseases on themselves and that they are the biggest earth pollutants when it comes to chemical
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